You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed

What a great day! Deus had a vintage surf and skate swap meet and, as usual, it was legendary stuff, on a perfect Sydney summer day. Met the art director of Mambo who was in residence during the glory days of the late 80's, early 90's. So he would've been the boss man when I did work experience at Mambo in 1990, which was Year 10 at high school in Australia. I apologised for fucking up the glue machine while I was there. Had a great chat with him about the surf and art culture that was heavily influenced by Mambo in those days. Being a young kid growing up in the Central West of NSW Mambo was the Holy Grail of street fashion, right up there with Vision Street Wear and Airwalk sneaks. A couple of the prints above I had up on my bedroom walls in Year 9 and Year 10 and were a big influence while I was studying 3 Unit Art during my HSC. I guess that's why I dig Deus so much now, seeing as how Dare Jennings (founder of both Deus and Mambo) has brought the same artistic passion to motorcycles and bicycles as he did to the surf and skate scene.

Get over and check out Carby's photos on the Deus Gallery, they're heaps better than mine!